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'In my opinion the drama of today is in a rut and full of prejudices and conventions...When I watch these great & talented people, these high priests of a sacred art, depicting the way people eat, drink, make love...when I hear them trying to squeeze a moral out of the tritest words and emptiest scenes, when I am presented with a thousand variations on the same old thing, the same thing again & again - well, I just have to escape, I run away'.
Why should anyone be interested in listening to you - unless you can make what you have to say interesting both in what you say and how you say it? Why should I want to spend time with your characters - in your story?
The function of dramatic structure is to orchestrate the audience's emotional experience of your story. This is what you have to control and master.
'Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house'.
When did I die?
Anyone?
(The quote is by Jean Sibelius by the way).
Posted on January 21, 2021 at 19:18
Anyone out there interested in the wardrobe of an old dead couple to wear for a year as a personal performance?
Probably best as a pas de deux.
Take the old pair on the voyage they never had into the C21st.
Posted on January 17, 2020 at 18:00
- Is that not the definition of Drama?
Is your skill as a dramatist the subtlety with which the undertones of thought + feeling are conveyed?
Direct statement being antithetical to our experience of what Drama is - namely a collaboration in which the spectator completes the narrative which the characters play out before him/ her. …
ContinuePosted on September 4, 2018 at 16:10
Write a Step Outline for a screenplay in 10 chapters.
1. Memory of Things Past
Your protagonist dunking something in his/ her morning coffee.
2. Strange Exile.
3. The Reality of Deceit
4. The World is Not Respectable
5. The Wicked Animal
6. Self-Consciousness is Murder
7. I Rejecting Me.
8. Choosing Delusion
9. The Solidarity of…
ContinuePosted on July 23, 2018 at 15:24
Screenwriting Ex.
1. The Devil I Am.
Write a 2 - 3 page Synopsis about a Man/ Woman who finds out he's the Devil.
He doesn't want to be.
Initially comic - think through his line of action.
What is he required to do for this 'job'. What actions?
What are the obstacles? How hard does he try to resist?
Can the Comedy/ Farce evolve into…
ContinuePosted on July 18, 2018 at 14:53
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No, I did not know Paula Rego, thank you for this great discovery. I salvation of France.
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Welcome Mark !!